Discussion/Interview

In Feb 2023, Seattle became the first city to enforce a ban on caste discrimination. This movement was spearheaded by councilwoman Kshama Sawant, who stated that caste is a lived reality for thousands of people in the state and across the broader country.
The Dalit leaders have sometimes made it to the top executive office in the state, but hardly any of them have managed to consolidate and maintain power. Entry has been possible. Continuity has not.
MPUAT has been a beacon of hope for Southern Rajasthan. But the very scientists, professors, and staff who dedicated their lives to Rajasthan’s farmers are now struggling to receive their basic pensions.
BSP Supremo Mayawati offering floral tributes to Kanshiram on his birth anniversary.
Congress’ Karamvir Singh Boudh and BJP’s Sanjay Bhatia.
A staggering 17.98% of the population of Karnataka in 2020 were from the scheduled caste community and 7.41% was from the scheduled tribes community.
The 2026 Regulations recognize caste-based discrimination as an ingrained problem within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), rather than a series of isolated occurrences.
Interviews, when excessively subjective, can quietly dilute the constitutional promise of equality of opportunity under Articles 14 and 16.
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The examples of the Hathras case, the Unnao rape case, and that of Bilkis Bano speak to how the criminalisation of grief enforces a lived reality for women in India, particularly for those coming from lower caste and minority groups, and how this reality relentlessly exposes whose lives are protected and whose are abandoned.
Institutional Apathy is a pervasive problem in NLUs. There is a lack of any sensitisation to caste, and colour-blindness is the official policy, the institutions lack SC/ST Cells, student run collectives on caste are rare, and if you want to raise issues of caste, then you are sowing divisions.
History shows that free thought can be seen as a serious challenge in times of growing authoritarian control.
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